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She was born in New City On Setempter 18 1947
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When she started her education at Blue Ridge Country Day School.
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At the age of 9 she wrote a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower decrying segregation.
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The college she went to was Bryn Mawr. She got her bachelor’s degree in history, in the year 1968 From Bryn Mawr College.
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she went to study American civilization at the University of Pennsylvania. She tried to get into the history program at the University, but they rejected her.
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married her college sweetheart Stephen Faust and he was attending medical School in Pennsylvania.
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She later on became Annenberg Professor of History, after getting her master’s degree in 1971 and her doctoral degree in 1975.
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In 1980, she married Charles Rosenberg, now Professor of the History of Science and Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard and one of the nation’s leading historians of medicine and science.
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Together, they have one daughter, Jessica, born in 1982
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In 1988, She was diagnosed with breast cancer, an event that caused her to reevaluate her life.
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As a sign of her historical and professional accomplishments, Faust was elected to the Society of American Historians in 1993
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As a sign of her historical and professional accomplishments, Faust was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994,
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While still at the University of Pennsylvania, she wrote several historical books about the Civil War topics, mainly about the lives of the Confederate women. Some of the books she wrote were The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South: A Women’s War.
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As a sign of her historical and professional accomplishments, Faust was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2004.
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She was elected the 28th president of Harvard University on July 1, 2007, and she was formally installed on October 12, 2007. Also she was the first women to hold that position in the 371-year history at Harvard University.